CHEYENNE.

Draw the hand across the arm, to imitate cutting it with a knife.

(_Marcy_ in _Prairie Traveller_, _loc. cit._, p. 215.)

Draw the lower edge of the right hand across the left arm as if

gashing it with a knife. (_Burton_.)

With the index-finger of the right hand proceed as if cutting the left

arm in different places with a sawing motion from the wrist upward, to

represent the cuts or burns on the arms of that nation. (_Long_.)

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